BART may convert parking lots into housing under Assembly bill
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BART may soon turn parking lots and vacant property into housing, pending Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval of a controversial bill.
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East Bay resident faces charges for rape and murder, implicated by previously untested rape kit
An Antioch resident charged with raping and murdering a UCSF dental student in 2015 could have been detained earlier if the rape kit from a separate sexual assault case had been tested in a timely manner.
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California has been ‘capital of democratic resistance’ in Trump era, state legislators say
Only weeks after Donald Trump secured the electoral votes to place his conservative administration in the White House, California won a Democratic supermajority in both houses of its legislature.
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Berkeley Law students propose legislation to register students to vote
Two students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have helped draft state legislation that would automatically register select college students to vote.
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City Council proposal suggests participatory budgeting for Berkeley
A recent proposal by Councilmember Kriss Worthington to the Berkeley City Council would, if passed, make Berkeley the eighth city in the U.S. to implement participatory budgeting.
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